By Giuseppe Munda
This ebook is the results of a few years of study conducted on the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam and on the Joint examine Centre of the ecu fee. the attention of tangible and capability conflicts among monetary development in construction, intake, and know-how and the surroundings has ended in the idea that of "sustainable development", implying that financial and ecological values are good balanced in evaluate and choice making. The linkages among ecosystems and financial structures are the point of interest of ecological economics. In ecological economics, a multidimensional method of fiscal and policy-making is emphasized. during this booklet, the creation of multicriteria choice relief strategies within the framework of ecological economics is commonly mentioned. given that such innovations are in line with a "constructive" rationality and make allowance one take into consideration conflictual, multidimensional, incommensurable and unsure results of choices, they are often thought of completely in step with the methodological foundations of ecological economics. given that the following the belief is accredited that potency, fairness and sustainability are the 3 conflictual values of economics, a mathematical process capable of care for those concerns in an operational framework is constructed, with a selected view on vague details in a realistic environmental making plans context. Given the matter of the diversities within the size degrees of the variables used for economic-ecological modelling, multicriteria equipment in a position to care for combined info (both qualitative and quantitative measurements) might be thought of fairly invaluable. one other challenge relating to the on hand info issues the uncertainty (stochastic and/or fuzzy) contained during this information.
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The. entropy concept can be defined as follows: "in an isolated thermodynamic system the available energy continuously and irrevocably degrades into an equal quantity of unavailable energy, so that the total energy remains constant while the unavailable energy keeps increasingly up to a maximum [GeorgescuRoegen, 1993, p. 187]". Where, available energy is the one that humans could use for their purposes while unavailable energy is energy that humans cannot use in any way; an isolated system is the one that can exchange neither energy nor matter with its environment.
In Chapter 3 the issue of commensurability and its criticism will be extensively discussed. In ecological economics, instead of the "maximisation premise" and the "weighting premise", a multidimensional approach to economic and policymaking is emphasised. In this book, the introduction of multicriteria decision aid techniques in the framework of ecological economics is considered desirable. Since such techniques are based on a "constructive" rationality (see Chapter 4) and allow one to take into account conflictual, multidimensional, incommensurable and uncertain effects of decisions, they can be considered perfectly consistent with the methodological foundations of ecological economics.
In Chapter 3 the issue of commensurability and its criticism will be extensively discussed. In ecological economics, instead of the "maximisation premise" and the "weighting premise", a multidimensional approach to economic and policymaking is emphasised. In this book, the introduction of multicriteria decision aid techniques in the framework of ecological economics is considered desirable. Since such techniques are based on a "constructive" rationality (see Chapter 4) and allow one to take into account conflictual, multidimensional, incommensurable and uncertain effects of decisions, they can be considered perfectly consistent with the methodological foundations of ecological economics.